7-letter words containing p, d, s
- spodium — a fine black powder formed by calcination
- spoiled — to damage severely or harm (something), especially with reference to its excellence, value, usefulness, etc.: The water stain spoiled the painting. Drought spoiled the corn crop.
- spondee — a foot of two syllables, both of which are long in quantitative meter or stressed in accentual meter. Symbol: .
- spondyl — a vertebra or something like a vertebra
- spooked — Informal. a ghost; specter.
- sporoid — of or like a spore
- sported — an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
- spot ad — a brief advertisement broadcast in a programme break
- spotted — Radio, Television. pertaining to the point of origin of a local broadcast. broadcast between announced programs.
- spouted — fitted with a spout: a spouted pitcher.
- spudded — Informal. a potato.
- spudder — a person who prepares and operates a rig for drilling oil wells.
- spuddle — a feeble movement
- spurned — to reject with disdain; scorn.
- spurred — having a spur or spurs.
- stamped — A stamped envelope or package has a stamp stuck on it.
- steeped — to soak in water or other liquid, as to soften, cleanse, or extract some constituent: to steep tea in boiling-hot water; to steep reeds for basket weaving.
- stepped — a movement made by lifting the foot and setting it down again in a new position, accompanied by a shifting of the weight of the body in the direction of the new position, as in walking, running, or dancing.
- stipend — a periodic payment, especially a scholarship or fellowship allowance granted to a student.
- stooped — to bend the head and shoulders, or the body generally, forward and downward from an erect position: to stoop over a desk.
- stopped — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
- striped — having stripes or bands.
- stumped — the lower end of a tree or plant left after the main part falls or is cut off; a standing tree trunk from which the upper part and branches have been removed.
- stupids — Term used by samurai for the suits who employ them. Succinctly expresses an attitude at least as common, though usually better disguised, among other subcultures of hackers. There may be intended reference here to an SF story originally published in 1952 but much anthologised since, Mark Clifton's "Star, Bright". In it, a super-genius child classifies humans into a very few "Brights" like herself, a huge majority of "Stupids", and a minority of "Tweens", the merely ordinary geniuses.
- suspend — to hang by attachment to something above: to suspend a chandelier from the ceiling.
- swamped — a tract of wet, spongy land, often having a growth of certain types of trees and other vegetation, but unfit for cultivation.
- swapped — to exchange, barter, or trade, as one thing for another: He swapped his wrist watch for the radio.
- sylphid — a little or young sylph.
- syrphid — syrphid fly.
- topside — the upper side.
- torpids — a series of boat races held at Oxford University
- unposed — not posed; not done for effect; natural or candid: her unposed manner; an unposed photograph.
- unspied — unnoticed
- uplands — an area of high or relatively high ground
- upsides — the upper side or part.
- upstand — to rise to one's feet; stand up
- upwards — toward a higher place or position: The birds flew upward.
- usurped — to seize and hold (a position, office, power, etc.) by force or without legal right: The pretender tried to usurp the throne.
- vespoid — like a wasp
- waspdom — The state or essence of being a wasp.
- windups — Plural form of windup.